after filtering-with the light off to show the color of the wax

its a orangy coralish color

i jimmy rigged a vacuume hepa filter and used it to filter in my cloudy lamp and it worked! it came out beautifly clear and after 3 droplets of bubble soap shes flowing like a champ :)

it really is orangish red. not the typical dark bloody red that came with the red/clear coaches so i dont think its original to tha coach lamp.

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Comment by lava luva ~ Tiffany on November 19, 2012 at 8:27pm: i think this globe is dying now :(...its gone all bubbly and has a weird flow now. any one know how to fix it?

Comment by lava luva ~ Tiffany on March 2, 2012 at 1:15am: i feel totally lucky :D thanks so much for the info jonas! it looks like it has about the same amount of wax as a newer globe. im so glad it cleared up!

Comment by Jonas Clark-Elliott on March 2, 2012 at 12:30am: Here's the deal on reds:

There were always two distinct wax colors for the three "basic" color combos. Pre-early 70s, red/clear and orange/yellow used a coral-like color, and green/blue used a medium-light green.

Some time in the early 70s, both colors began to change. Green was the slow one: first it became what box color stamps called Sage Green, a pale gray-green; these have a tendency to turn into "Pond Scum" in Centuries and tended to burn to a caramel brown with the liquid fading to almost clear in Enchantresses. Finally it became a creamy color. The change to "white/blue" only required changing the liquid color to a darker blue.

The coral lava color had a very sudden change to DARK red. Just as before, one had clear liquid, the other yellow, and the latter was still sold as "orange/yellow."

What you have here is most likely an early globe. Late 60s had a totally different mix - if yours has less lava in it (check against another newer globe while cool) it's older. If not, it's still an earlier globe. Either way, it's VERY uncommon to have an earlier coral globe in a later Gen. 3 Lantern, which seem to have been standard by 1975. Consider yourself lucky!